KARACHI, June 24: The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to the police and jail authorities in a petition seeking whereabouts of a former union council nazim of Kalakot.

A division bench headed by Justice Muhammed Athar Saeed put off the hearing to July 4 directing the respondents to produce the alleged missing man.

Petitioner Nazia Bibi, wife of Abdur Rauf Baloch, approached the court against the alleged detention of her husband by the personnel of law-enforcement agencies in plain clothes.

She impleaded the provincial and city police chiefs, the prisons’ chief and his deputy, the superintendent of the Central Prison Karachi and the SSPs of the CID and Special Investigation Unit as respondents.

The petitioner, represented by Advocate Nazir Ahmed, submitted that her husband was released on bail from jail on June 18 after being imprisoned for 10 months in “false cases”.

However, she stated, plain-clothes personnel, who came in a white Land Cruiser, picked her husband as he was released from the jail at around 6.30pm and took him away.

The woman submitted that she approached the prison and police authorities to ascertain her husband’s whereabouts, but to no avail.

She prayed to the court to direct the respondents to produce her husband in court.

The petitioner also sought protection for her husband.

‘Missing’ KWSB man case

The same bench directed the home secretary to supervise the investigation being conducted to ascertain the whereabouts of an employee of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board.

Petitioner Bina Khalid approached the SHC against the detention of her husband, Shamim Khalid, who had been missing since Jan 6.

The Rangers had already denied to have arrested the petitioner’s husband in their comments filed in court.

The petitioner stated that she along with her husband and their five-year-old son was going in their car when her husband pulled over near an ATM at Malir Halt to withdraw money.

She said that all of a sudden the LEA personnel in two vehicles, both bearing official registration numbers, intercepted and took him away.

She said she cried for help but none came to her husband’s rescue, while the police and Rangers were patrolling the area.

She impleaded the interior secretary, the home secretary, the Rangers director general, the city police chief and others as respondents.

The court had earlier directed the interior secretary, the home secretary and the city police chief to file their replies with respective supporting affidavits. It had also ordered the chiefs of the Inter-Services Intelligence, the Military Intelligence and the Intelligence Bureau to file their report along with supporting affidavits. The respondent agencies also denied to have arrested or detained the alleged missing man.